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Feds Investigating Christie For Putting His Family In TV Ad Using Sandy Money

(Jen Chung) As his involvement in Bridgegate is being examined, there's more bad news for NJ Governor Chris Christie: His family's appearance in NJ tourism ads—made with federal Hurricane Sandy relief money—is now the subject of a federal audit.

The Record also reports: "Pallone pointed out that In an August request to the inspector general, Pallone cited reports that another firm had bid more than $2 million less to do the ad campaign. That firm's proposal did not include ads featuring the governor and it did not get the contract. Christie's administration has said the firm that won the contract, East Rutherford-based MWW Group, developed a promotion campaign that included more than just TV ads, including a ribbon-cutting on a boardwalk in Ocean County that set the world record for the longest ribbon and was covered on network television."